This book is for practising professionals and academics working in urban planning and international development: international project staff, trainers, urban development researchers and teaching staff in universities and polytechnics.

Markets, partnerships and sustainable development in solid waste management; raising the questions.- Markets, partnerships and sustainable development in solid waste management; raising the questions.- Collection, Transportation and Disposal of Urban Solid Waste.- Evolving partnerships in the collection of urban solid waste in the developing world.- Collection, transportation and disposal of urban solid waste in Hyderabad.- Collection, transportation and disposal of urban solid waste in Nairobi.- Trial and error in privatisation; the case of Hyderabad’s solid waste management.- Reuse, Recovery and Recycling of Urban Inorganic Solid Waste.- Reuse, recovery and recycling of urban inorganic solid waste; modalities, commodity chains and sustainable development.- Reuse, recovery and recycling of urban inorganic solid waste in Hyderabad.- Reuse, recovery and recycling of urban inorganic solid waste in Nairobi.- Reuse of Urban Organic Solid Waste.- Urban organic solid waste: reuse practices and issues for solid waste management in developing countries.- Urban organic solid waste: practices in Hyderabad.- Demand for compost from urban organic solid wastes in Hyderabad.- Urban organic solid waste: practices in Nairobi.- Conclusions.- Government, market and community in urban solid waste management; problems and potentials in the transition to sustainable development.